by antiaristo » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:43 am
There are local elections.<br>Scotland is NOT voting.<br>London and about half the rest of England are voting.<br>That's about two-thirds of England (can't let them ALL vote at the same time. old boy. Divide and rule!).<br><br>Equivalent to an electorate of around twenty-three millions.<br><br>The total electorate in Scotland is about 3.6 millions.<br><br>Scotland has THREE levels of government. Westminster, Edinburgh, local.<br><br>England has TWO levels of government. Westminster, local.<br><br>So these elections rank second only to the General Election. They are important.<br><br>This is what New Labour has on offer to the English electorate.<br><br>Blair, Brown, McCartney, Prescott, Jowell.<br><br>The first three are Scottish.<br>For the purposes of these English elections they are foreigners.<br>It's like Canadians running the campaign in the United States (think about that).<br><br>They are also crooks.<br><br>Blair and Brown you know about already<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=2221.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...2221.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>McCartney signed the submissions to the appointements commission on behalf of the Labour Party. He certified that those secret donors had no financial links with the party.<br><br>Prescott and Jowell are both English. Prescott's trademark is that he cannot construct a meaningful sentence in the English language.<br><br>Jowell was at the centre of the last scandal, since D-noticed about three weeks ago.<br>There is enough evidence already in the public domain to send her to prison.<br><br>Yet she is THE FACE of the Labour campaign. She is presented as Mary Poppins.<br><br>This is what New Labour offers the voters of England.<br><br>This is what the Windsors mean by "law and justice in mercy".<br><br>So please, havanagilla, if you are reading this, please do not blame us English for all the blood that will be spilt.<br><br>It is the Scots that glory in all this guts and gore and death.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:small;">It's Smiley's people who are calling the shots . .</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> <br><br>Parliamentary sketch by Ann Treneman<br> <br>IT WAS all so top secret that it was almost like a spy novel. I speak, of course, of Labour’s local government election campaign launch. Even the night before, the event remained shrouded in mystery. My only clue to what was going on was that I had been given a secret pager number and the instruction to ring it at 07.30 hours (spies always use 24-hour clocks, I believe). Only then would I receive the co-ordinates for the launch location. <br><br>Hardly any press could be allowed in because “space was very limited”. This made it sound even more mysterious. I had visions of an underground bunker. How dull then to find myself at a boring old building near Tower Bridge (it was five storeys high and so space obviously not that limited). We were ushered into a secret closed room and told that no questions were allowed. <br><br>Why was this? But that was a question and, therefore, could not be answered. If questions are banned, they are banned. No exceptions, even for questions about a ban. I must say that holding an election launch without questions was a bit odd. But I could see their point. After all questions can be so very irritating. Questions are, in fact, almost as unpredictable as voters. If the Labour Party could, it would hold elections without any voters or questions to mess up their lovely plans. Is this democracy? (Sorry, that’s a question.) If it is then it’s <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>democracy, Soviet-style.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>As the time drew near, we received further instructions though, sadly, not in invisible ink. We were going to be led to a lift and taken to the fifth floor. We would be ushered to the back of a room. Before us would be five tables, each occupied by eight Labour Party people and one empty chair. We were not to speak to anyone. We would be given special earphones to wear throughout. <br><br>It went like clockwork except for the bit where Adam Boulton, the man from Sky, got into the lift and broke it. The earphones were huge, like giant mufflers. They made us look mad, as if we were in direct contact with Bomber Command. The empty chairs were not for us but the politicians. <br><br>Tony Blair arrived in “casual” mode with rolled up shirtsleeves. Gordon Brown wore his usual dark suit but he had pre-pasted on his smile. I could see why the next three didn’t want to answer questions. Ian McCartney, the party chairman, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>has an accent that needs decoding</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. Then there was John “Punch” Prescott and Tessa Jowell, who looks like a wounded deer after all that scandal. <br><br>Tony gave a short speech in which he told us how great he was. He also said, briefly, how great Gordon was. Gordon then told us how great Gordon was. He didn’t say how great Tony was but he did mention Tony’s name four times. This created the illusion of intimacy but no one was taken in. <br><br>There was then about ten minutes of “talk time” at the tables. We were stuck in our quarantined positions and our earphones were being controlled by an Unseen Presence. <br><br>The Presence began at Tony’s table, where we heard him chatting about his Respect agenda and his coffee. “Don’t tell Cherie,” he said as he grabbed a cup. As if we would. <br><br>I tried to get near to Gordon’s table but my way was blocked by two Labour people. Then the Presence switched over to him anyway. <br><br>“What are your big concerns?” he boomed. <br><br>“Parking,” said a real person. <br><br>“Parking!” boomed the man who doesn’t drive. “Yes.” <br><br>Then Ian said it was time to hit the phones: “It’s good to talk!” Well, shouted a hack, why not talk to us then? But that was a question and so had to be ignored.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2120677,00.html">www.timesonline.co.uk/art...77,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Get the picture yet?<br> <br> <br> <p></p><i></i>